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title: "Provision of elective services (Additional Theatre Capacity)"
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# Provision of elective services (Additional Theatre Capacity)

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-elective-services-additional-theatre-capacity-ocds-h6vhtk-02db92). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust: "Provision of elective services (Additional Theatre Capacity)". Published status: active. Published Value: Value not published. 7 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 8 Sept 2021, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: commercialsolutions.bravosolution.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/east-kent-hospitals-university-nhs-foundation-trust-nhs-rvv)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 8 September 2021 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 7
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Hospital services, Surgical hospital services
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ44
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £3,400,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02db92`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-elective-services-additional-theatre-capacity-ocds-h6vhtk-02db92#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [commercialsolutions.bravosolution.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommercialsolutions.bravosolution.co.uk%2Fweb%2Flogin.shtml)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-elective-services-additional-theatre-capacity-ocds-h6vhtk-02db92#participate

## Description
The aim is to procure elective service contracts from across the Kent and Medway System to improve the access to Elective and Diagnostic services of the Contracting Authorities Patients. 
The service will run between 1st October 2021 and 31st March 2022. 
This service is to be delivered within 30 miles of the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, Kent; to facilitate access for the identified patient demographic.
The service must have the clinical capability and be already working to a clinical safety standard that enables them to carry out surgical procedures under local anaesthetic to at least ASA Level II but preferably have a greater capability than this if possible.   
The service must have resuscitation facilities on their site with access to Advanced/Urgent Care practitioners.    
The service must be able to provide patient access to services 7 days per week and ideally covering 12 hours per day to enable patient choice when scheduling their procedures.
The service will be required to treat patients referred from clinicians from NHS Kent and Medway CCG.

## Lots (7)
### Lot 1: General Surgery
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85111100
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Description:** The provision of:<br/><br/>1) General Surgery; and<br/>2) Gynaecology; and<br/>3) Orthopaedics; and<br/>4) Urology, <br/><br/>elective and diagnostic services (additional theatre capacity)  to East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
- **Contract Period:** 01/12/2021 to 30/11/2024
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 2: Gynaecology
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85111000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Description:** The aim is to procure elective service contracts from across the Kent and Medway System to improve the access to Elective and Diagnostic services of the Contracting Authorities Patients.
- **Contract Period:** 30/09/2021 to 31/03/2022
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 4: Urology
- **Lot id:** `4`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85111000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Description:** The aim is to procure elective service contracts from across the Kent and Medway System to improve the access to Elective and Diagnostic services of the Contracting Authorities Patients.
- **Contract Period:** 30/09/2021 to 31/03/2022
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 5: ENT
- **Lot id:** `5`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85111000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Description:** The aim is to procure elective service contracts from across the Kent and Medway System to improve the access to Elective and Diagnostic services of the Contracting Authorities Patients.
- **Contract Period:** 30/09/2021 to 31/03/2022
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 6: Audiology
- **Lot id:** `6`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85111000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Description:** The aim is to procure elective service contracts from across the Kent and Medway System to improve the access to Elective and Diagnostic services of the Contracting Authorities Patients.
- **Contract Period:** 30/09/2021 to 31/03/2022
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 7: Dermatology
- **Lot id:** `7`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85111000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Description:** The aim is to procure elective service contracts from across the Kent and Medway System to improve the access to Elective and Diagnostic services of the Contracting Authorities Patients.
- **Contract Period:** 30/09/2021 to 31/03/2022
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot Orthopaedics: 3
- **Lot id:** `Orthopaedics`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85111000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Description:** The aim is to procure elective service contracts from across the Kent and Medway System to improve the access to Elective and Diagnostic services of the Contracting Authorities Patients.
- **Contract Period:** 30/09/2021 to 31/03/2022
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 037404-2024-EKHUFT_December_2021-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Whitstable Medical Practice**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-162178`
  - Value: £3,400,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 037404-2024-EKHUFT_December_2021-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £3,400,000
  - Signed Date: 19/12/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F037404-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-11-19T15:49:29.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T06:38:21.706Z
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